----- Original Message ----- From: "joanna bujes" <jbujes at covad.net>
I'd go one further and say that the "greatest pleasure" is something that goes beyond pleasure, beyond the pleasure/pain/numb complex of feeling. This state, which is beyond pleasure/pain is referred to by many as joy and it is asserted that it is not rooted in any kind of prejudiced subjectivity but in a certain quality of awareness.
I would say that some art seeks to cultivate this quality of awareness in us -- mostly by allowing us to be attentive to the whole spectrum of feeling/memory/paradox attending any event and allowing us to sense how we are implicated in all the events we pretend to merely observe.
Joanna
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And go further still 'beyond' the joy/nonjoy beyond/within complex to explore-create yet different awareness of-attentiveness to paradox-participation-performance........
Dynamics are more interesting than state[s].
Ian